The CEO of the NPA, Hassan Tampuli in an earlier interview stressed the outfit’s readiness to clamp down on illegal activities.

The crime is reported to have cost the state about 200 million dollars between 2016 and 2017.

“I have had to recently sign letters to deal with people who are still doing under-declaration but it looks like it is not deterrent enough. So we are going to put all the defaulters before the disciplinary committee of the NPA board and by the time that we are done with this process I’m sure that people will wake up. This is because it is not going to be business as usual. I am assuring the defaulters that all measures will be taken to bring the roof down.”

While cautioning the public to desist from doing business with the affected companies, the NPA has also cautioned the companies to desist from engaging in the sale, supply, transportation, discharge and receipt of petroleum products for the duration of their suspension.